Upcoming Events

Bernice L. McFadden (Praise Song for the Butterflies), Katia D. Ulysse (Mouths Don’t Speak), and Karen E. Osborne (Getting it Right) will appear on a panel moderated by Angel Nafis at the 10th Annual Literary Arts Festival at the Langston Hughes Community Library and Cultural Center.

Tag: Jim Pascoe

Introducing the Spring Thrills Digit! Excerpts from By the Balls: The Complete Collection by Jim Pascoe and Tom Fassbender, Heart of the Old Country by Tim Mcloughlin, Southland by Nina Revoyr, and The Plot Against Hip Hop by Nelson George.

I don’t like to talk about myself, and I don’t like small talk. Guess that makes me the odd man out in LA.

The scene before me spread out like the opening of a movie. Interior establishing shot. A party. Extras hovering around, moving lips without anything coming out. Even with a bunch of people all grouped together, the place felt sparse. Ten thousand square feet and twenty-five-foot ceilings will have that effect.

What was I doing here, in a penthouse loft on Spring Street?

Dance music from the 80s pushed out of a 90s plastic boom box, the kind that looked like the front end of a car. No one was dancing.